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California Democrats All Vote for Pelosi

January 4, 2019 12:38 pmJanuary 7, 2019 10:27 pm

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, received 46 votes from California’s Democratic Congressional delegation. She received a total of 220 votes. Despite some members of Congress voicing opposition to Pelosi for Speaker, all 46 California Democrats, including...

Deputy DA Outraged Over Brown’s Lawsuit to Stop Ballot Initiative

January 4, 2019 7:15 amJanuary 9, 2019 7:19 pm

Four-term Democratic California Governor Gov. Jerry Brown made reforming California’s criminal justice sentencing guidelines a priority over his 16 total years as governor. Add to that his record number of pardons and prison commutations, and violent prison inmates have been...

California Globe Hires Veteran Journalist Katy Grimes as Editor

January 2, 2019 9:00 amJanuary 4, 2019 3:32 pm

Investigative Journalist Katy Grimes joins California Globe as Editor, January 1, 2019. Grimes is a longtime investigative political journalist, analyst, and author, and reports on the California Legislature and politics from the State Capitol in Sacramento. Grimes has been published...

Jerry Brown Rips Donald Trump While He Still Can

September 13, 2018 7:43 pmSeptember 17, 2018 8:05 am

As the Global Action Climate Summit came to a close today in San Francisco, Governor Jerry Brown made sure not to leave the event without dogging President Trump. During his closing speech, the Governor remarked on several topics including how...

Bill to Make Uncontested Elections Unnecessary Is Itself Unnecessary

September 7, 2018 6:30 amSeptember 14, 2018 12:50 pm

Did the Legislature – in passing SB-1128 and sending it to the governor – just waste a lot of time drafting a bill that was unnecessary? Following traditional rules of statutory interpretation, that may well be the case. It all...

Kamala Harris Hits Peak Presidential Hype

August 12, 2018 9:00 amAugust 22, 2018 7:55 am

It seems some oddsmakers may have taken notice of all the hype that California Senator Kamala Harris is a rising Democratic star. In fact, the online betting website Oddsshark.com is optimistic on Harris, saying she is now tied with Vermont...

Evolution of a Fake News Notion

May 30, 2018 11:51 pmJune 4, 2018 12:10 pm

Fake news isn’t always about outright lies or intentional omissions. There are matters of nuance and degree, as well. Back when there were real people making judgments about how to package stories—these people were known as “editors”—one of the major...